MercoPress. South Atlantic News Agency
Stories for July 2nd 2015
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Thursday, July 2nd 2015 - 06:37 UTC
Pacific Alliance summit takes off in Peru with business conferences
The Xth summit of the Pacific Alliance took off on Wednesday with the attendance of presidents from Chile, Colombia, Mexico and Peru at the Peruvian sea-side resort of Paracas.
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Thursday, July 2nd 2015 - 06:24 UTC
Chile insists with Pacific Alliance/Mercosur intelligent convergence
Chile will insist at the two-day Pacific Alliance summit which took off on Wednesday in Paracas, Peru, that a convergence with Mercosur is needed to ensure the integration of Latina America, and this is more evident now that both groupings face similar challenges such as falling prices for commodities, normalization of US monetary policy and an international context of slow growth.
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Thursday, July 2nd 2015 - 06:13 UTC
Mercosur summit will establish 'action plan' to speed discussions with Europe
The Mercosur Council will establish an “action plan” at the next Mercosur presidential summit scheduled for 16/17 July in Brasilia, when the group's chair for the next six months will be handed to Paraguay by Brazil. Other issues on the agenda besides making Mercosur more flexible include addressing the 'special regimes' and the 'free trade zones' in the area, revealed Uruguay's foreign minister Rodolfo Nin Novoa.
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Thursday, July 2nd 2015 - 06:04 UTC
Brazil's budget during May back in the red; Congress restless about austerity
Brazil reported a primary budget deficit for May that was its widest for 2015, making its annual savings goal more difficult to achieve despite government efforts to raise taxes and cut spending. Central bank data showed a primary budget deficit of 6.9 billion Reais ($2.23 billion). This compared with a primary surplus of 13.445 billion Reais in April.
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Thursday, July 2nd 2015 - 05:45 UTC
FIFA chief Blatter convinced he's “clean” and one day will go to heaven
Sepp Blatter, president of the world soccer governing body FIFA that is embroiled in corruption investigations, has told a German magazine he has a 'clean and clear' conscience and believes he will “go to heaven one day”.
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Thursday, July 2nd 2015 - 05:24 UTC
Gibraltar hosts 35-country EU Small Business Association in Brussels office
Gibraltar House in Brussels hosted a board meeting of the European Small Business Association (ESBA). The Gibraltar Federation of Small Businesses was a founding member of ESBA, and currently participates in it as a Board member. ESBA has its headquarters in the city and represents over one million small and medium-sized enterprises and self-employed people from 35 countries.
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Thursday, July 2nd 2015 - 05:17 UTC
US embassy will be opened on July 20; Kerry will raise the flag in Havana
President Obama formally announced on Wednesday that the United States and Cuba have both agreed to open embassies in each other’s capitals following more than a half-century of hostilities between the two nations.
